The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Northamptonshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 28 17 31
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +14
Contract jobs citing Spring 4 30 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 1.587% 7.212% 0.365%
As % of the Application Development category 11.76% 37.04% 4.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 27 1
Average daily rate £438 £250 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% -13.04%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.81 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-14.42% -23.52%
All Application Development
Northamptonshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
34 81 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 13.49% 19.47% 7.664%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 54 10
Average daily rate £356 £250 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.50% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £225 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £583 £300 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
East Midlands

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Spring across the Northamptonshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Northamptonshire Spring Jobs Demand Trend

Spring
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Spring across the Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Northampton +6 3 £450 -14.28%
Spring
East Midlands

Spring
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing Spring also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Spring.

1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) Scrum
2 7 (63.64%) TDD
2 7 (63.64%) BDD
3 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) Kanban
3 4 (36.36%) hybris
3 4 (36.36%) Extreme Programming
3 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (27.27%) Pair Programming
4 3 (27.27%) Ajax
5 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
6 1 (9.091%) Internet
6 1 (9.091%) JSP
6 1 (9.091%) Web Services
6 1 (9.091%) HTML5
6 1 (9.091%) HTML

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing Spring also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Spring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (27.27%) Ajax
2 1 (9.091%) JSP
2 1 (9.091%) Web Services
2 1 (9.091%) HTML5
2 1 (9.091%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Internet
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Java Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Agile Coach
3 2 (18.18%) Agile Java Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Applications Support
4 1 (9.091%) Java Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Java Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Scrum
1 7 (63.64%) TDD
1 7 (63.64%) BDD
2 4 (36.36%) Kanban
2 4 (36.36%) Extreme Programming
2 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (27.27%) Pair Programming
4 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) hybris
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